{"id":671561,"date":"2026-05-15T16:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671561\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T16:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:54:09","slug":"stephen-colbert-david-letterman-toss-cbs-property-off-the-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671561\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert, David Letterman Toss CBS Property Off the Roof"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs we inch closer to the final air date<\/a> of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/a>, the host recruited his predecessor, David Letterman<\/a>, for a very important task: to throw CBS property off the roof.<\/p>\n

\n\tStanding on top of the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City, Letterman told Colbert, \u201cI thought maybe tonight\u2019s occasion would be a little sad, being the end of your run here, but this brings true joy to my heart. We are up here for the wanton destruction of CBS property!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThat property included couches, Colbert\u2019s office chair, several watermelons, and even a three-tiered congratulatory cake with the words The Late Show: 1993-2026 in icing. \u201cThank you for everything you\u2019ve done for our country,\u201d Letterman told him. \u201cTo the folks at CBS, in the words of the great Ed Murrow, \u2018Goodnight and good luck motherfuckers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLetterman hosted The Late Show from 1993 through 2015, until Colbert took over for an 11-year run. CBS announced the show\u2019s shocking cancellation<\/a> last July, despite being one of the most-watched late-night programs and earning an Emmy, a Peabody Award, and other accolades. While CBS said it was \u201cpurely a financial decision,\u201d it\u2019s no secret that Colbert has been a frequent critic <\/a>of President Donald Trump (at the time, CBS was trying to complete a merger with David Ellison\u2019s Skydance, which the Trump administration<\/a> would have to approve).<\/p>\n

\n\tColbert\u2019s final installment airs May 21. Out of solidarity, fellow late-night hosts Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> and Jimmy Fallon <\/a>will air reruns of their shows. Earlier this month, Colbert had Kimmel, Fallon, and other late-night hosts, including Seth Meyers and John Oliver, on the show. It marked a reunion of Strike Force Five, the podcasts they launched during the 2023 writers\u2019 strike.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cYou guys started before I did,\u201d Colbert told them. \u201cEach of your shows you\u2019re doing started before this show. And then you\u2019re going to be here after I\u2019m here. You\u2019re like the candy shell, I\u2019m like the nougat filling, and then somebody came in and just sucked it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s like when your young wife dies,\u201d Kimmel replied. \u201cGone too soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As we inch closer to the final air date of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the host…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,12997,75,3668,6713,348],"class_list":["post-671561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-david-letterman","tag-entertainment","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}